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Man Quotes
"It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin."
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"When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men."
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"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
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"Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment."
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"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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"Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children."
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"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."
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"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."
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"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."
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"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."
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"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
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"We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow."
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"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
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"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
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"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
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"Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity."
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"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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"O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out."
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"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans."
Man,
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"You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win."
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"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
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"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."
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"I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards."
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"Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear."
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"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
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"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."
Man,
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"A man without a vote is man without protection."
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"Man has now become an adjunct to perfect and carry forward these conquests."
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"Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse."
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"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?"
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"Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world."
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